Improvement in cording-guides for sewing-machines



i ".UNITED STATES.

PATENT' OFFICE.

- SYDNEY D.- TUCKER, on TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR '.rov CALVIN s. sILL,

OF "SAME PLACE.

Vspecies-leon forming pal-l; or Letters Patent No. 33,817', dated Novembe 26, 1861.A

Tcll whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYDNEY D. TUCKER, of

` the city of Troy, iu the county of. Rensselaer and State of -New York, have invented a r'er-v taiu newand'lmproved Guide for Sen/.ug-

Machines,` fwhich invention I have assigned to Galvin S). ill, of the same place and Ido -hereby declare that the following-is a'full and t exact description of my said invention, refer- 'encebeing had to the annexed drawings, in which the same letters of ,reference indicate like parts inall the figures.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a side View of one of -my improved guides applied, as when iny use, to the cloth- 4.bed Z ota sewingfmachine.. Fig. 3 is. a section of the same guide at or near the line y y -.in Figs. 1 and 2.- Fig. 4 is a view offthe narrow end ofthe guide, where the `cloth leaves 4it. Figsr., 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11,- 12, 13, and 141-- show the wide end of the guide, where the cloth 'ent-ers,'aud some of the various ways in which the materials to belsewed may be drawn -through the implement.- Figs.v15, 16, 17, 1S,-

`19, 20, 21, 22, 23, an Z4 represent cross-sec- .tionsof the seams of the variously3arranged materials just `after being drawn through the guide and stitched together by a sewing-machine, which latter may be of any of theakinds in cominon use.

X is the needle, 'zo thepressingbot, and e the feeding-teeth, of a sewing-machine.

'.Ihe arrow u, Figs. 1 and 2, indicates the direction in which the sewing-machine draws ,the-.materials through the guide.

' Intheimprovedsewing-machineguideshown by theanuexed drawings,-A isa tapered U- -sha-ped-shell, and B is a tapered core arranged within the shell, so as to leave a tapering U- shaped space, t, between the shell and the core.

C and D are guides, by which the space betWeent-he core and shell is limited in length on each side of its bend, and e is a cord-guiding aperture arranged through the core B, and .just inside of its end.

F andrGr are `two guides, arranged outside and on the flattened parts of the shell A, so thr each of these guides presents a ledge or shoulder ou the side next to the bend s iuthe shell.- l

The shell Avis so disconnected from the core B on one side as to leave'a passage, h, Figs.

12,13, and 14, through which may extend-av piece of cloth, r,'wider than the length of the space between the core and shell. l To use this sewing-guide it is fastened upon the cloth-bed Z of a sewingmachine, with that side uppermost which has the passage-way h,-

andwith the narrowes't end of the taperedshell nearest Ato the feeding and stitching devices ofthe sewingfmachine, and so that when the end's'of the materials fr q p o u are passed through the sewiugguide and the sewing and feeding devices are'put in action upon them the sewi-ng-machiuewill then drawv themate-i rials along and through the guide, and thereby fold and .lay themtogeigher and unite thelnby a seam, m, all substantially as indicated by the annexed drawings. A

The guides C and D can lbeseparately set at diii'erent distances from the bend s,so as .to guideboth edges of strips of cloth or binding g, of different Widths, through. thc space be'- .tween the shell and corra, and cause the fold to be made either in the middle or nearer to either edge ofthe strip of cloth orbinding, as indicated. by Figs. '5, 6,' 8. The guides G, D, and F are set at different distances from the bend s in the shell A by means 4of set-screws i and jj, and the screw k securesV the whole sewing-guide .to 'the cloth-bed Z, as shown by` the annexed-drawings; but amy other suitable o'r equivalent devices may be employed for Athose purposes.v However, the three guides C, D, 'and'F need not bc adjustable, as above specified, when the sewing-guide is to be. used forvfolding only one widthofbinding at onlyone distance from its edge and 'laying the' folded binding upon a broad piece of cloth at only one distance from the edge of the latter,`

or when the sewing-guide is to beused for only one size and kind of work of the charac-v therein, as. shown by 15, byfn'eans ofthe combination, as shown by Fig. 5,I of the two inside guides, G and D,cordguiding aperture 8, tapered bending shell A, and tapered bending core B; und, as shown by Fig. 22, a wide piece of cloth, r, will be folded along one edge and a cord,p, laid therein, and the right or 1 face side of the seam m or stitches left on the-right or face side of the pieceof cloth or garment, by means of thecombination and arrangement, as shown by Fig. 12, of. the lower inside guide, C, cord-guide e, tapered bending shell A, bending core B, and the'cloth-liiassage h, between the upper side of the core and the shell; and, as shown by Figs. 23 and 24, a

part of a garment or wide piece of cloth, fr,

wili be folded'along one edge and laid, 'with or without a cord,p, in the fold upon and along the edge of another wide piece of cloth, o, and ystitched thereto, so that the right side of the seam will be on the face or outer side ofthe united pieces of cloth or garment, by the use.v

of the combination, as 4indicated in Figs.'13 and 14, of the lower outside guide, F, lower inside guide, C, cloth-'passage h, bending shell A, and core B, with or without the cord-guiding aperture e; and, as shown by Figs. 16, 17, 18,

and19, a binding or narrow strip ot' cloth, q, will` be folded together and laid along and4 nponfor beneaththe edge of a broad piece of cloth, o ora,

with o rwithout a cord, p,intl1ei'old ed binding, by the use, as indicated in Figs. 6,'7, 8, and 9,

' ofthe combination of the lower outside guide,

F, or the upper outside guide, Gr, and the two inside guides, U and D, the bending shell A, und the core lB, with or without the cord-guiding aperture e; also, asindieated in Figs. 1.0

and 11, by the use of thecombination .of the two out-side guides, F and G, and the two in-v side guides, C and D, with the shell A and* core B, with or without the cord-guiding aperture e, a' binding, q, will be folded and laid along and between the edges of two pieces ot cloth, 0 and '21., with or without a cord,1, in the fold in the binding, as iilustrated'by Figs.20 and 21.

I am aware that adjustable hernming-gnides and guides for cording and devices for both lbeen heretofore contrived for use'with sewing- 'rnachines, examples bein g shown in Nos. 20,245,

25,255, 10,386, and 12,8l6ot` United States Letters Patent for inventions, and I do not claim any such devices.

Having thus described my improved guide for sewing-machines, what I claim thereof as new and of my invention, and desire to have secured by Letters Patent to the aforesaid Galvin S. Silbas the assignee of all my right and title thereto, is-i n 1. The arrangement of the lower outside guide, F, ,with the bending shell A, core B,

and two inside guides, 0 D, as and for the purpose herein specified, and shown by Figs. 7 and 17. l

2. 4'iihe arrangementoftliecord-guidingaperture e with the bending shell A, eoreB, inside guidera() D, and lower outside guide, F, as and for the purpose herein speci tied, and shown by Figs. 6 and 16. l'

3. The arrangement ot' the 'upper outside guide, G, with the bending shell A,core B, and

hemminn and cordinvv simultaneous] v have b H i Figs. 12, 13, 14.

two inside guides, C D, as and for the purpose herein specified, and shown by Figs. 9 and 19.

'4. rEhe arrangement of the oord-guide cwi-th the bending sh'ell A, core B, inside guides, C D, and upper outside guide, G, as and forihe purpose herein specified, and shown by Figs. 8 and 18.

5. The arran gelnentofthetw'o outside guides,

SYDNEY D. TUCKER..IV

Witnesses:

A'sTIN F. PARK, A. il. FELLoWs.' 

